Welcome to Now See This, THR chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg’s weekly viewer guide newsletter dedicated to cutting through the daunting clutter of the broadcast, cable and streaming TV landscape! Comments and suggestions welcome at daniel.fienberg@thr.com.

Get 'Happy'

Last month, at the beginning of the WGA strike, Rutherford Falls creator Sierra Teller Ornelas wrote a Twitter thread about her experience as a young writer on ABC's Happy Endings. The thread talked about the show's impressive legacy as a breeding ground for future showrunners and laid out how many of its best facets are being fought for within the current labor disputes. On this week's TV's Top 5  podcast, Lesley Goldberg and I got 14 Happy Endings  writers — including Ornelas, series creator David Caspe and more — to discuss what made that writers room special in a smart and wide-ranging conversation. An impressive chat and an amazing piece of booking acrobatics by Lesley! It's also always good to have a reason to go back and rewatch Happy Endings on Hulu, among other places.

Season of the Niche

It's a big week for new seasons or reboots or remakes of properties for which, if you're the target demographic, you're probably pretty pumped. There's a new season of Outlander debuting on Friday, so my parents are pretty pumped. The Righteous Gemstones returns for season three, and the recent crowd at the ATX TV Festival was pretty pumped. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the best-reviewed series from Paramount+'s recent run of Star Trek shows, returned on Thursday, and sci-fi fans are pumped. And if they're not pumped for that, they're probably excited for a new run of Netflix's  Black Mirror, though Angie Han deemed the new season to be uneven. And if you're excited for The Walking Dead: Dead City, a spinoff featuring returning favorites Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, the show is probably what you're expecting, though that doesn't necessary mean it's good.

Sense of Schumer

In the mood for some laughs? The streamers have you covered. Search Party star John Early drops his first HBO special, Now More Than Ever, on Saturday, and it's an amusingly varied set from the quirky comic. Early's material ranges from an extended, almost stream-of- consciousness meditation on modern life and millennial failures to an oddly timed critique of the Trump Access Hollywood tape to several surprisingly credible cover songs with his backing band, The Lemon Squares. More conventional in its structure is Emergency Contact, Amy Schumer's new Netflix special, an update from the reliable comic on the state of her marriage, motherhood and, naturally, Hilaria Baldwin. 

Fatal 'Extraction' 

In honor of Juneteenth and Father's Day, the streaming movie gods are giving audiences… a sequel to Extraction, the Netflix blockbuster in which Chris Hemsworth used his particular set of skills to kill many people and grimace a lot, all amid a cacophony of gunfire. Our Frank Scheck recommended muting the dialogue and pumping up the volume to enjoy the ambitious stunts. FX's Hulu original The Full Monty  isn't a movie, but it's based on a movie, and Angie deemed the eight-episode series to be welcome if not necessary. And CNN and OWN are co-broadcasting one of several Juneteenth specials on Monday, if you don't happen to feel like watching the Juneteenth episodes of Atlanta or Black-ish again.

Honoring Treat Williams

Treat Williams, who brought youthful exuberance to Milos Forman's Hair, moral complexity to the murky world of Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City and fatherly gravitas to The WB’s Everwood, died this week at 71. Several of Williams' best projects are only available for purchase or, in the case of Prince of the City, on YouTube with ads, but Hair is on Tubi and Everwood is streaming on Amazon. You can check out his Emmy-nominated turn in The Late Shift on Max, which has his memorable cameo in We Own This City  as well.

Honoring Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson, winner of two Oscars and three Emmys before spending 23 years in the U.K. parliament and then returning to acting and winning a Tony, died this week at 87. Unfortunately, neither of Jackson's two Oscar-winning performances — Women in Love and A Touch of Class — is available to stream, but several of her film highlights are, including Sunday Bloody Sunday (Tubi) and Hopscotch (Criterion Channel). Her Emmy-winning turn in Elizabeth R  is on BritBox and, if you have the PBS Masterpiece channel, you can watch her spectacular, career-capping role in Elizabeth Is Missing.